MAP-21 Webinar July 20, 2012 Where Are We Today? Moving Ahead for - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

MAP-21 Webinar July 20, 2012

Where Are We Today? • Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21 st Century Act (MAP-21) Conference Report passes Congress June 29, 2012 (House vote of 373-52; Senate vote of 74-19) • President Obama signs MAP-21 into law July 6, 2012 • P.L. 112-141 policy takes effect October 1, 2012 • MAP-21 authorization expires September 30, 2014 • Fuel tax collection authority expires September 30, 2016

The Bill Really Passed?!! But What About? Keystone XL Pipeline? Coal Ash Deregulation? Pay-fors? No earmarks and a campaign season underway?

MAP-21: Top-Line Summary • Funding: $118 billion total ($105 billion for FY13 and FY14) Current funding levels indexed to inflation LUST Trust Fund, Pensions, General Fund transfers used as pay-fors • Consolidates or eliminates 60 federal programs • Improves system performance through national goals and measures, statewide and metro area performance targets • Expedites project delivery Streamlines environmental review process, expands categorical exclusions, allows initial work to begin before NEPA approval • Expands TIFIA and tolling, removes anti-PPP provisions • Establishes National Freight Policy and National Freight Network • Eliminates Equity Bonus but guarantees 95% return to the States • Continues Highways/Transit split at 80/20

MAP-21: ITS Highlights • Performance Management: ITS needed to measure and improve safety, congestion, system reliability, freight movement • Planning: States and metro areas must promote efficient system management and operations, incorporate performance targets • Core Highway Programs: ITS eligible in all formula programs • ITS Research: Restored to $100M per year • Technology & Innovation Deployment program established $62.5 million per year • Transit: Bus Rapid Transit expansion and planning • Financing: TIFIA & Tolling expanded, PPP amendments out • Other: ITS in National Freight Policy, Innovative Project Delivery

Performance Management Process National Goals and Performance Measures • Goals to be established for Safety, Infrastructure Condition, Congestion Reduction, System Reliability, Freight Movement and Economic Vitality, Environmental Sustainability, Reduced Project Delivery Delays • U.S. DOT to develop performance measures with States, MPO’s, transit agencies and stakeholders - FHWA to promulgate a rulemaking establishing performance measures and standards by April 1, 2014 • States and MPOs required to set performance targets and report back annually on their progress towards meeting those targets Consistent with ITS America’s performance measures proposal Statewide and Metropolitan Planning • Both State DOT’s and Metropolitan Planning Organizations must consider projects and strategies as part of their planning process that promote efficient system management and operation

Core Formula Programs • National Highway Performance Program - $21+ billion per year – “Capital and operating costs for traffic management and traveler information monitoring, management, and control facilities and programs” – “Development and implementation of a State asset management plan…” – “Infrastructure - based intelligent transportation systems capital improvements” • Surface Transportation Program - $10+ billion per year – “Projects and strategies designed to support congestion pricing, including electronic toll collection and travel demand management strategies…” • Highway Safety Improvement Program - $2.4 billion per year – Funding doubled, eligibility expanded to include “...priority control system for emergency vehicles at signalized intersections… traffic control or other warning device at a location with high crash potential” – Data driven through planning and safety problem identification and countermeasure analysis • Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) - $2.2 billion per year – “… projects to improve mobility, such as through real -time traffic, transit and multimodal traveler information… or otherwise reduces demand for roads through such means as telecommuting, ridesharing, carsharing , …and pricing”

Transit Program • Funded at $10.5+ billion per year • Strengthens Federal safety oversight role • Bus Rapid Transit – Expanded for projects in defined corridors that demonstrate substantial investment in fixed transit facilities including transit stations, ITS technology, traffic signal priority, and off-board fare collection • Capital Project definitions – “Transit - related intelligent transportation systems…”, “safety and security equipment and facilities” (including ITS solutions), and “the introduction of new technology through innovative and improved products…” • Performance-based – Statewide and Metro Planning: “promotes efficient system management and operation”, includes performance measures for safety, state of good repair • Research – New funding for technology demonstration and deployment projects, including “mobility management and improvements and travel data management systems” and “advancements in vehicle technology”

ITS Research and Deployment • ITS Research and Development Program funded at $100 million per year – Senate bill had funded program at $50 million – Saves Connected Vehicle Program – Requires V2V and V2I Deployment Report in 3 Years • Technology & Innovation Deployment Program – New $62.5 million per year program to provide competitive grants to accelerate adoption of “innovative technologies” across surface transportation system Similar to but broader than the Smart Technologies for Communities Act • Highway Research program includes focus on reducing congestion, improving operations and enhancing freight productivity – Includes active traffic and demand management, accelerated deployment of ITS, arterial management and traffic signal operations, congestion pricing, real-time information, road weather management, and other ITS strategies

Transportation Financing • Expands TIFIA Loan Program – Increased from $122 million to $1 billion – Threshold for ITS projects remains at $15 million – Master credit agreements allow applicants to receive funding for a program of projects – Rolling “first come first serve” application process • Expands State Tolling Authority – Provides states with authority to toll new and existing highway facilities while ensuring that existing Interstate lanes that are now toll-free remain toll-free – HOV to HOT lane conversions must include automated toll collection systems and establish policies to manage demand using variable pricing – Within four years, all toll facilities on the federal – aid highway system must implement technologies or business practices that provide for the interoperability of electronic toll collection programs

Other MAP-21 Highlights • National Freight Mobility Policy – Goals include “to used advanced technology to improve the safety and data of the network” – “ITS…, real- time traffic, … multi - modal transportation information systems” are all eligible for a federal match up to 95% – State Freight Plans must consider innovative technologies and operational strategies, including ITS, that improve freight safety and efficiency • Innovative Project Delivery – Declaration of Policy: “it is in the national interest to promote the use of innovative technologies that increase the efficiency of construction, improve the safety, and extend the service life of highways and bridges … including state of the art intelligent transportation system technologies – Federal share can be up to 100 percent

Other Legislative Issues • Appropriations Process House THUD Appropriations bill approved Includes amendments to prohibit spending on VMT user fee research or implementation, GPS tracking Senate timeline unclear • Sequestration Highway Trust Fund programs protected Potential impact on Amtrak, some transit and aviation programs

Join the Fight for ITS Join ITS America’s Campaign for Intelligent Transportation Solutions • Campaign to champion high-tech solutions for transportation – Has improved Congressional and media relations – ITS industry at the table for key legislative debates – Has created new opportunities: Capitol Hill Tech Showcase, Smart Solution Spotlight, increased news coverage • Need to capitalize on current momentum, continue influencing policy debates including MAP-21 implementation • Current law expires in just over two years! • Campaign sponsorship includes Legislative Steering Committee, Congressional Roundtable membership, other benefits Continue to educate your Senators, Congressmen, other electeds

Questions? Contact ITS America: Quentin Kelly ITS America Campaign Director 202-721-4212 qkelly@itsa.org Paul Feenstra Principal, Keystone Public Affairs 202-721-4237 pfeenstra@itsa.org or paul@kpa-llc.com Charlie Tennyson Member Services Coordinator 202-721-4207 ctennyson@itsa.org